"A work in the photographic-diary style, practised since Nobuyoshi Araki’s Pseudo-Diary of 1980, but with a heavy and dark note as it records the year - 1989 - when both the emperor and Yoko died. Araki no longer plays around with the date, and the collection tells of days with no precedent in his life."--Kotaro Iizawa, Araki: Self, Life, Death.